emancipate

/ɪˈmæn(t)sɪpət/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ēmancipātus (“liberated, emancipated”) + English -ate (suffix forming verbs, and adjectives with the sense ‘characterized by the specified thing’). Ēmancipātus is the perfect passive participle of ēmancipō (“to declare (someone) free and independent of another’s power, emancipate; to give (something) from one’s authority or power into that of another, to alienate, transfer; to cause (oneself or someone) to become another’s slave; to make (someone) subservient”), from ē- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + mancipō (“to sell; to transfer”) (from manceps (“owner, possessor; purchaser; etc.”) + -ō (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs)). The verb emancipate has verb sense 1.1 (“to set free”) and verb sense 1.3 (“(obsolete) to place un

emancipate means synonym of emancipated (“having been set free from someone's control, or from some constraint; at liberty, free”). Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 80 out of 100.

emancipate is pronounced /ɪˈmæn(t)sɪpət/.

Why “emancipate” is a great word

EMANCIPATE — [Verb] To set free from the control, restraint, or power of another, especially from slavery or servitude. From Latin ēmancipātus, past participle of ēmancipāre, from ē- (variant of ex-, 'out, away') + mancipāre ('to transfer ownership, to sell'), from manceps ('purchaser, owner'). First recorded in English use 1615-25. Unlike "manumit," which formalizes a master's act, or "release," which merely ends a confinement, to emancipate is to sever the profound bonds of a systemic dependency. It is the dry crack of a legal seal, the collective sigh of a nation casting off a foreign yoke, and the quiet, private decision to walk away from an idea that has long held you captive—a freedom purchased, paradoxically, from the very system that held title to you.

adj

Synonym of emancipated (“having been set free from someone's control, or from some constraint; at liberty, free”).“For I doe take the conſideration in generall, and at large of hvmane natvre to be fit to be emancipate, & made a knovvledge by it ſelf; […]”

verb

To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.“[T]his was his [God's] first work,to redeem, to vindicate them from the usurper, to deliver them from the intruder, to emancipate them from the tyrant, to cancel the covenant between hell and them, and restore them. so far to their liberty, as that they might come to their first Master if they would: this was redeeming.”
To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.; To cause (a place) to be free from the colonization or rule of another entity.“to emancipate a colony”
To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.; Often followed by from: chiefly with reference to slavery in the United States, and in Central and South America: to set free (oneself or someone) from imprisonment, or from serfdom or slavery.“to pass a law emancipating slaves”
To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.; To release (a minor) from the legal authority and custody which a parent or guardian has over them; also (Ancient Rome, historical), to release (a child) from the legal authority of the paterfamilias.“The child was emancipated from her parents”
Often followed by from: to free (oneself or someone, or something) from some constraint or controlling influence (especially when evil or undue); also, to free (oneself or someone) from mental oppression.“Education can emancipate us from error or prejudices.”
To place (something) under one's control; specifically (chiefly reflexive), to cause (oneself or someone) to become the slave of another person; to enslave; also, to subjugate (oneself or someone).“He that vvill ſinne vnto death, or ſinne ſo farre as to put himſelfe into the ſtate of damnation; muſt ſinne ſo farre, as vtterly to ſeparate, and cut off himſelfe from Chriſt, vtterly to extirpate all the ſeeds and habits of true and ſauing grace vvhich are vvithin him, and vvholly to emancipate and inthrall himſelfe to the ſeruice of ſinne and Sathan: […]”